How many elephants?

(howmanyelephants.co.uk)

22 points | by tagawa 4 days ago ago

6 comments

  • dahart 2 hours ago

    I entered 4e10 for Energy | Kilocalories, and got:

    => 0.914x the recommended daily food consumption for a male human adult (1.09x smaller)

    Is this a bug, or am I not eating nearly enough?? ;)

    • zamadatix an hour ago

      It looks like they defined that stat internally as "1.046e7", which would be a reasonable number assuming Joules. Elsewhere it defines Kilocalories as "0.000239006"... but I'm guessing they meant it the other way around (i.e. "4184" not "1/4184") based on how they use the data in the functions.

      Sure enough, if you do 4e10/4184^2 you get right on target. I think other things in the energy category may have the same "wrong conversion direction" bug as well.

  • signorovitch 2 hours ago

    I thought at first it would represent everything in elephants; elephant volumes, elephant hides, elephant-years &c.

    • baubino 27 minutes ago

      Me too. That was the reason I clicked. Now I’m disappointed to not know how many elephants.

  • Amorymeltzer 3 hours ago

    >the height of a Greg Davies

    I think (little) Alex Horne made this

  • eightnoteight 3 hours ago

    first i thought the website would say how many elephants left in the world (like white rhinos)